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A. CLEMENT.

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No. 234,391. I Patented N0v.16,1880.

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AUSTIN CLEMENT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

OVERALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,391, dated November 16, 1880.

Application filed July 12, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUSTIN CLEMENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Overalls; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a front View of a pair of overalls provided with my improvement, showing the external appearance; Fig. 2, a similar view with one side thrown downward, showing the internal appearance; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, detail views. 7

My invention relates to a device for connectin g together, at their lower ends, the parts termed the flies in overalls and other pantaloco-garments, with a view to preventing the tearing apart or ripping of the said flies; and it consists in providing the garment with a metal connecting-link, through which each fly is doubled before being sewed in. place, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A is the bodyof the garment, and B B the flies, comprising, as usual, separate strips of cloth sewed one to each side of the front opening. O is the link, which is employed to connect the lower ends of the flies together, and which consists of a piece of wire bent into the form shown in Fig. 3, with its opposite ends eitherjoined together (No model.)

or not, as may be preferred. Each fly is passed through the link, as shown in Fig. 4, and doubled upon itself as far back as may be desired, as shown in Fig. 5, the effect, when both are attached, being that represented in Fig. 6. When the flies are finally sewedin place upon the garment one or more rows of stitches should be formed close to the link in each, as shown at s, Fig. 2, to insure permanency in the position of the said link. When viewed from the outside the garmentpresents the usual appearance, as shown in Fig. 1.

The advantages of my invention are very great, for the particular part of the garment which my device serves to strengthen is the one most subject to strain in nearly every attitude that the wearer assumes, as well as in drawing the garment on and off, and at the same time it is so simple as to add almost nothing to the cost and labor of manufacturing.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the pantaloon-garment A and the flies B thereof, the strengtheninglink 0, sewed to each of the said flies at the lower end of the front opening, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EPHRAIM BANNING, THOMAS A. BANNING. 

